Robert of Jumièges: Quick Facts

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Born	Normandy • France
Died	c.1055 • Jumièges • France

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Saint Dunstan of Canterbury

English archbishop

John Leslie, detail of an engraving

John Leslie

Scottish bishop

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Lanfranc

archbishop of Canterbury

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Wulfstan

English archbishop

Durham Cathedral

William Of Saint Carilef

English bishop

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Roger of Pont l’Évêque

English archbishop

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Sir Francis Englefield

advisor to Mary I

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Hugh Le Despenser

English noble, the younger [died 1326]

Thomas Cranmer

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

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Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon

English statesman

Portrait painting by Hans Holbein the Younger of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, seated at a desk holding a paper, wearing dark robes and a black cap.

Thomas Cromwell

English statesman

William Laud

William Laud

archbishop of Canterbury

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Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford

English noble

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William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke

English regent

Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx

Cistercian monk

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Henry, 1st duke and 4th earl of Lancaster

English soldier and diplomat [1300-1361]

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George Digby, 2nd earl of Bristol

English statesman

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Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland

English statesman

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John Colepeper, 1st Baron Colepeper

English statesman